About Me

James Phelps is an award-winning senior reporter for Sydney's The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph. He began as an overnight police-rounds reporter before moving into sport, where he became one of Australia's best news-breaking rugby league journalists. James was then appointed News Corp Australia's Chief National Motorsports Writer and travelled the world chasing Formula 1 stories, as well as covering Australia's V8 Supercar races. As well as writing bestselling and critically acclaimed biographies of Dick Johnson and Johnathan Thurston, James established himself as Australia's number-one true crime writer with his bestselling prison series, including Australia's Hardest Prison, Australia's Most Murderous Prison, and Australia's Toughest Prisons. His most recent books are Australian Heist (2018), a dramatic retelling of the true story behind Australia's largest gold robbery, and Australian Code Breakers (2020), a gripping account of how Australian cryptographers helped bring about the most vital Allied naval victory of World War I. James is currently writing the sequel to his fiction blockbuster The Inside Man

Inside Man, Harper Collins, 2021

Blood, Sweat and Steel, Curtis McGrath, Harper Collins, 2021

Australian Code Breakers, Harper Collins, 2020

Johnathan Thurston, The Autobiography, Harper Collins, 2019

Australian Heist, Harper Collins, 2018

Green Is The New Black, Inside Australia's Hardest Women's Jails, Random House, 2018

Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates, Random House, 2017

Australia's Most Murderous Prison Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail, Random House, 2016

Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail, Random House, 2016

Dick Johnson The Autobiography of a True-Blue Aussie Sporting Legend, Random House, 2014